5 alternative fundraising ideas using leaderboards

Tracking progress and comparing performance on Leaderboards are a great way to bring everyone together to achieve a goal.

The “big number” is highlighted at the top of the page while the leaderboard creates a little healthy competition between the 20% of your fundraisers who raise 80% of the funds.

While using a Rise board to track the score is an awesome use case and we’ve seen this work many times. In this post though I want to ask, are there are other innovative ways to use the technology?

Here are five ideas you might want to try next time you’re planning a digital fundraising campaign:

Use leaderboards as part of an open charity auction – set a time limit and allow bidders to keep adding new bids until the clock runs out when the highest bidder gets the prize.

Everyone-gives charity auction – in this variant all bidders donate and the highest single donation gets the prize.

Mileometer – who can walk / cycle the most miles (assuming they have agreed they will get sponsorship for each mile they walk). Like a fitbit wall chart showing progress on, a leaderboard can encourage walkers to get out of bed a little earlier, just to outwalk their neighbours, all raising that extra bit of sponsorship.

Fundraiser league tables – running league tables of fundraisers can be great fun, be sure to put fundraisers in a division with peers – its unfair to put the people raising funds from high net worths or companies in the same bracket as those trying to encourage online donations

Fundraiser teams – split your fundraisers into teams and see which team can raise the most money. If you’re a school why not split alumni into their houses and maintain old pupils association with not only the school but their house. Griffindor versus Slytherin anyone?